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The Amiga 500 was pretty responsive, and its CPU power was epsilon compared to a Raspberry Pi or any modern embedded system. It's just that modern software is
by jblow 7y ago
The Amiga 500 was pretty responsive, and its CPU power was epsilon compared to a Raspberry Pi or any modern embedded system.
It's just that modern software is garbage. That's all.
- arendtio 7y agoI agree. A few years ago, I powered up some old 166 MHz Windows 95 PC and was surprised how fast it was (certainly not on all tasks, but in general).
- renox 7y agoAnd Amiga had no memory protection which means that it would be very unsafe to use Internet with it. That said BeOS was quite responsive and had memory protection, but still inadequate security for modern security attacks.
- bmurphy1976 7y agoThe memory protection doesn't account for the performance hit. It's all the layers of shitty software and garbage devices on top.
- renox 7y agoMemory protection only adds a small performance hit that's true but it also requires a totally different way of working. I don't know much about Amiga but I remember that when reading about Synthesis (a very fast & low latency kernel https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-modifying_code#Synthesis https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-modifying_code#Synthesis ) thinking that it was only possible without memory protection..